Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

On this week’s episode of Enneagram IRL, we meet with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, Harvard physician, nationally recognized stress expert, and author. She is also an in-demand multi-media personality, high profile medical correspondent, internationally renowned Fortune50 speaker, and podcaster. Uniquely fulfilling her original career ambition to be a journalist, Dr. Nerurkar has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, Architectural Digest and Elle – in addition to being a columnist for Forbes and writing for The Atlantic.

Dr. Nerurkar’s expertise on stress comes from working with thousands of patients throughout her years as a primary care physician and director of an integrative medicine program at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is now a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health & Social Medicine and serves as the Co-Director of the Clinical Clerkship in Community Engagement. She has also worked in global public health at a World Health Organization collaboration center in Geneva, Switzerland.

To bring stress back to healthy levels, Dr. Nerurkar offers her five science-backed mindset shifts, rooted in more than two decades of clinical experience, for when life gets hard:

• The First Reset: Get Clear on What Matters Most
• The Second Reset: Find Quiet in a Noisy World
• The Third Reset: Sync Your Brain and Your Body
• The Fourth Reset: Come Up for Air
• The Fifth Reset: Bring Your Best Self Forward

To learn more about Dr. Aditi Nerurkar and “The 5 Resets,” visit https://www.draditi.com/.

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Here are the key takeaways:

• What is Toxic Resilience?
• The Rule of Two
• Diving into the Five Resets
• Addressing: “I’ve tried everything nothing is working”
• What is the mind-body connection?
• Exercise: Stop, Breathe, Be & Sticky Feet
• Myth: You can’t think your way out of stress

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Covenant of Water Novel by Abraham Verghese
• Cutting for Stone Novel by Abraham Verghese

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